Currently reading: Communication Solution by Stacy Smulowitz 📚
Blogs
This book has some decent insights, especially on how to refine your leadership “brand” in the workplace and online, but I’m not sold yet. Currently reading: When We’re in Charge by Amanda Litman 📚
Currently reading: In My Remaining Years by Jean Grae 📚
Currently reading: When We’re in Charge by Amanda Litman 📚
Vonnegut captures today’s tech zeitgeist in a science fiction tale - written seventy years ago. Apparently he wrote it during his time at GE, inspired by their rush to automation. Finished reading: Player Piano by Kurt Vonnegut 📚
Wherein the protagonist turns a blob into the man of her dreams. Currently reading: Blob by Maggie Su 📚
Currently reading: Player Piano by Kurt Vonnegut 📚
Needed this vibe. Currently reading: An Immense World by Ed Yong 📚
The bureau speak is v amusing. Currently reading: The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley 📚
Finished reading: Thick by Tressie McMillan Cottom 📚
Book club categorically disliked this one. Finished reading: The Heart in Winter by Kevin Barry 📚
Dang, this is good. Currently reading: Thick by Tressie McMillan Cottom 📚
Wednesday, November 20, 2024 →
Finished reading: Wandering Stars by Tommy Orange 📚
🧶 Wonky Star quilt
Monday, November 11, 2024
Posting about my latest quilt for posterity. This is a “wonky star” quilt using 10” precuts, measuring about 60 X 70”. I completed the sides last night and will hand quilt all of it with a mix of big stitch quilting.
Finished reading: Lit by Mary Karr 📚
Finished reading: The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates 📚
Finished reading: Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt 📚
Currently reading: Abortion by Jessica Valenti 📚
Ephemera
Wednesday, September 25, 2024
Been playing with micro.blog for a bit now and very much recommend the experience. The interface is friendly and the team behind the app is ultra responsive. My fav features are Bookshelves - and the ability to push new posts to Bluesky and Mastodon.
In other news, I got a new bike.
Wednesday, September 25, 2024 →
Finished reading (a couple of months ago): Holding It Together by Jessica Calarco 📚
Wednesday, September 25, 2024 →
Read this in one sitting, reminded of “The Fire Next Time” in both style and urgency. Finished reading: Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates 📚
Finished reading: On Writing by Stephen King 📚
🍳 Bean machine
Tuesday, September 3, 2024
It’s soup season - and I’m a newly-minted member of the bean club. This is more or less my favorite lentil soup recipe, except I deglaze the pot with a healthy dose of dry red wine before adding the lentils and stock, and I stew it with a big sachet of fresh thyme.
Finished reading: James by Percival Everett 📚
Currently reading: 100 Years of the Best American Short Stories by Lorrie Moore 📚
I read this again after a twenty year break. It holds up, but wowzers, my takeaways were different in 2024. Finished reading: The Red Tent by Anita Diamant 📚
A clever look at feminist theory through celebrity case studies. My favorite chapters were on humor, leadership and nudity.
Finished reading: Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud by Anne Helen Petersen 📚
From the Garbage Day newsletter, my fav newsletter on internet trends and marketing, this blog post on looking for federated blog alternatives to Wordpress which links out to this handy dashboard measuring total users on federated platforms.
Girl in a Band
Monday, June 3, 2024
A quick read by a singular voice, heavy on descriptions of the New York art and music scene of the 90s. Like many punk memoirs, it’s a tribute to the many names that made the movement and a memorial for a city that no longer exists. Gordon’s voice is kind and bold, curious and smart. Her descriptions of growing up in LA and coming of age in New York are painterly and poetic. Her takes are generous for all but one person: her ex-husband.
All my respect to her for opening and closing the books with her raw reflections on Thurston’s mundane and deeply uncool betrayal.
Finished reading: Girl in a Band by Kim Gordon 📚
⚡ Bookshelves
Friday, May 31, 2024
The Bookshelves feature of Micro.blog is easily my favorite of this platform. It sits right at the intersection of medium and function: as a reader I want to keep track of things, but I don’t need so much infrastructure around it. Just some checkmarks and a place to dash off my immediate thoughts.
I’ve been keeping my virtual bookshelf up to date while pushing myself to take on a bunch of literary fiction, but I’m tired, reader. So instead of laboring on with a pile of good books I didn’t really want to read, I lined up a bunch of rock n’ roll memoirs for the summer while I manifest camping, hammocks and time otherwise spent by a lake.